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The Truth About the Bible
By God | August 17, 2007
I’ve been reading the blasted thing and there is a generous measure of absolute bullshit doing a fine job of obscuring what truth there is supposed to be in there.
Don’t get me wrong, it’s not a best-seller for no reason. It’s got loads going for it: orgies, debauchery, murder, rape, magic, demons, evil empires, brave warriors all sorts of fine stuff that certainly gives The Lord of the Rings a run for its money. It also makes great screenplay material for big-scale movies. Old Charlton Heston made his name in biblical epic movies, you know, back in the days when he was better known as an actor than a gun nut.
Yep, it is fine stuff. But the scary thing is that some people actually consider it to be a work of historical fact. Honest, I kid you not. Quality though it is, the Bible is clearly a load of old bollocks. As a historical document it is unreliable in the extreme. As biography it is tosh.
But it is as a manual of morality that it is really outrageously fecked up. The two parts, the Old and New Testaments, are basically the case notes for a schizophrenic god. The stuff is inconsistent. What was okay under the old blood-and-thunder regime of the OT is tutted at in the NT as politically incorrect and harsh, and things that are forgiven in the NT would have got offenders stoned to death in the old book.
And it is full of the most appalling nonsense. Stuff about having faith based on nothing more than being told you should. Stuff about killing in the name of God. About homosexuality being bad. About people who don’t share your religion being fair game as slaves and objects of sexual abuse.
For My sake, don’t let religious nutters of any denomination make your laws for you. Either take My commandments direct from Me or find someone rational who isn’t afflicted by xenophobia, homophobia or material vested interest who can formulate rational, universally fair and consensually acceptable laws.
It’s not that hard. Just keep the common sense ones and throw out the ones that are based on superstition and ignorance.
By all means, make great movie adaptations of the Bible. Knock yourselves out with expensive special effects and hammed-up acting performances. If you want to, you can even get pretentious and use Aramaic, Greek or Latin for the dialogue.
Just don’t take that ludicrous shit as anything but a fairy tale.
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August 21st, 2007 at 10:20 am
Amen to that!